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This was a bit of an experiment. But I like the result, as simple as it is.
After making 5 pieces of clothing from my new aquisition "drape drape 2" (that I love),out of which 2 were easy, one was reasonable, one was a bit of a challenge and one almost impossible to figure out the construction of, I needed something uncomplicated!
I wanted to try to make as simple as possible a pattern for a jersey shirt, to see how it would fit/hang on the body. The result is a very 1980's, very relaxed but quite versatile t-shirt.
The pattern is basically a square, 60×60cm's, with a 30 cm long neck opening and 20cm long sleeve openings. The neckline is lowered 2,5cm's in the front and 1,5 cm's in the back to make it more comfortable. And that's it!
I've added a diagram of the pattern and a simple instruction on the sewing (it's easy enough for total beginners) if anyone wants to try it out.
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Sep 7, 2011, 08.23 PMby WhisperingPines
This top looks so cute! I am sooo making this once I find the right fabric (and a cute belt to boot!) :)
Feb 2, 2011, 10.28 AMby infinite-plus-one
Thank you for this great post (: I actually tried this out and would love to hear your opinion (:
Sep 19, 2010, 12.05 AMby bluedeva
I made this earlier on today and whilst on here trying to find inspiration i found your version. Thankfully mine came out just as brilliantly as yours. such a simple design yet so effective. Good choice!x
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Sep 20, 2010, 08.16 AMby ichigogirl
Ah, excellent! Glad you liked it :-)! And I'd love to see it!
Sep 6, 2010, 11.47 AMby sandrasews
So fab, looks like my kind of shirt, one I would pull out at every chance to wear with jeans.
Sep 5, 2010, 08.35 PMby jenpom
really nice! this would also look fab in a dressy fabric and tucked into a high waisted skirt or trousers!! lovely.
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Sep 7, 2010, 08.11 AMby ichigogirl
Thanks! Yes, I should try that too as I'm trying to be with the Self-stitched-September-ladies at least in spirit and wear home-made clothes every day!
I also think this kind of pattern can be changed into loads of variations really, really easily, such as a little pleat in the center back, or a few on each shoulder, or a drawstring in the waist…
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In this workshop students will learn the pleasures of writing poetry. We will capture experiences from memories, dreams and the world around us. We will experiment with lively, evocative ways to enter into writing, using objects, language, and artwork, and will learn the elements of poetic craft. And we will read and discuss a wide range of poets, which will introduce you to the range and possibilities of poetry.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – King College Softball will play in the annual Stateline Classic, held at Whitetop Creek Park (Bristol, Tenn.), tonight at 6:30 p.m. versus sister-city rival Virginia Intermont College. The Lady Tornado and Lady Cobra will serve as the feature game of a series of softball contests being held at the complex.
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King College will play in a non-conference, neutral-site game versus the Virginia Intermont Lady Cobras Wednesday night (April 11) as the feature game of the 2012 Stateline Classic. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. from the main field at the Whitetop Creek Park Complex, in Bristol, Tennessee.
The Stateline Classic is an annual showdown between Tennessee and Virginia for the battle of softball supremacy between the neighboring states. What originally started as a way to showcase the talents of multiple colleges from the NAIA and NCAA Division I and II levels has morphed into a local display of area high school and colleges that duke it out during an afternoon that fills the fields of the complex for fans to see the best softball of the region. For the past three seasons, King versus Virginia Intermont has cultivated as the feature game as it encapsulates the rivalry between the bordering states at the college level.
Head Coach Jenn Testa expressed the significance of King's participation in the Stateline Classic saying, "It has been around long before I started coaching at King and over the last three years has provided a great atmosphere for fans, coaches, and the players. There has been lots of local turnout for many fans of the different teams, so you get a glimpse at a lot of different teams, players, and levels of play."
Games will begin as early as 4:30 p.m. and carry into the night under the lights of multiple fields. King and Virginia Intermont will hit the diamond for a single game at 6:30 p.m. on the complex's main field.
"This is definitely a good thing for the community," said Testa. "It provides lots of exposure and really perpetuates and displays the rivalry that exists between many teams, including ours and Virginia Intermont."
King (24-14) and Virginia Intermont (20-22) played twice earlier this season in a doubleheader held on March 20. The Lady Tornado won both contests by a combined score 13-2 where the pitching duo of Hannah Light and Rachael Wilmoth allowed only four hits to the Lady Cobra in each contest.
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None less than Dave White (available now for the 2011-12 conference keynote season) started talking about geeks on twitter the other night.
This is what I have learnt about geeks in the last 10 years – I've worked with them and hung out with them, and although I feel like I understand them I wouldn't claim to be one.. On twitter I was in full-scale Adam Curtis mode (or maybe just trying to get a slide all to my self in a Dave White talk) and came up with the following soundbites:
"The geeks are 2%. They've always been 2%. They always will be 2%. They'll always own the cutting edge."
"Geeks are The Culture. They share everything, they don't need profit, they trust each other, they have super-advanced tech, they are naive."
"Geeks have their own currency – reputation. In that respect they've a lot in common with what academics used to be."
So, to unpack that a bit I'm fundamentally seeing geeks as being defined as those who are living now the life we will all be living in 3-5 years time. But they are doing so with a very different set of assumptions, values and interest.
Geeks are not technodeterminists.
It's a cliche to paint a geek as having an interest in technology – Technology for geeks is like bricks to a builder. It's a staple. You can do all kinds of cool stuff with it, but in itself it's barely worth thinking about. Show a geek and a non-geek technodeterminist a new gadget. The technodeterminist gibbers about UI and gigabits and pixels per square inch. The geek asks "what can I do with it?" – a question that is more concerned with openness and interoperability than specification.
Geeks are interested (almost unhealthily in some cases) in human interactions and ways in which they can be improved and better understood. Most of what is interesting in geek culture is based on their understanding of (or, attempts to better understand) human interaction, and is expressed in the medium of technology. Most geeks do not have a formal background in humanities, so insights are drawn from technical analogies and amplified/reinforced by popular philosophy/literature and *especially* the more interesting class of games.
Amongst themselves, they have perfected interactions to a terrifying level. Respect and reputation are key, but the unlocking capability is the ability to ask intelligent questions. If you can do this – even if you can't understand the answers – you are accepted into the community. However, a poorly expressed question can often be treated with derision and rudeness.
Geeks design systems of interaction based on mutual respect and trust, precise and concise communication of key ideas, and the assumption that everything will be shared. When these systems migrate into wiser usage, these underlying assumptions can cause major problems. Facebook, for instance, assumes that you want to share pretty much everything with pretty much everyone – a default that becomes more and more problematic as the service becomes more mainstream.
Commerce, or even profit, is frowned upon. Those who manage to profit whilst maintaining geek credibility are tolerated, those who do not retain standing in the community are reviled. Geeks are more likely to work on something they think is cool (often with superhuman levels of effort and time commitment) than on something that simply pays their wages.
They are using technologies on a daily basis that you will be using, as I say, in 3-5 years time. But by the time you get there they will be gone, to a technology that is more efficient and/or (usually both) more open. Ideas and tools that excite them now are almost certainly not accessible for the rest of us, indeed we'll have very little chance of understanding them in their current state. UI comes later, the possibilities and efficiencies are what is initially important.
As I said above, I'm not a geek – just someone who knows some geeks and is dumb enough to think he understands them. I think there are some historical and cultural parallels, as Carl Vincent pointed out:
"[T]hey are equivalent to academics from 300yrs ago and engineers from 150yrs ago."
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- Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.
- Preface to Das Lied Von Bernadette [The Song of Bernadette] (1941).
- Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
- Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
- Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52.
- Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
- Der sicherste Reichtum ist die Armut an Bedürfnissen.
- The safest wealth is the poverty of needs.
- Zwischen oben und unten (1946), p. 315.
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Derek Fitzpatrick joined the Bronco family during the 2008-09 season as a volunteer assistant coach. Fitzpatrick will specifically work with the team on player development and technical skills development.
"I am very happy to welcome Derek to the women's tennis staff," said Bronco head coach Ben Cabell. "Derek will be a great extra person out there on the court and his experiences will definitely help the team and their development as players. His personality is a great match for our team and he will be able to contribute a lot to the team."
"I am very excited to be here at Santa Clara," said Fitzpatrick. "It's great to be back in collegiate tennis. Ben has set very achievable goals for this year and I'm very excited to be a part of this program in the coming years."
Fiztpatrick, a native of the Bay Area, is no stranger to collegiate tennis. Fitzpatrick was an outstanding member of the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs tennis team from 1998 to 2001. They won a team championship in 1998 and he won an individual singles and doubles championship in 2001. Fitzpatrick was also a five-time All-American and was named UCSC's Male Athlete of the Year in 2001.
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Blackfoot City Councilman Rich Woodfin presented a tentative three-phase plan to remove eight blue spruce trees along Bergener Boulevard at last week's city council meeting.
The trees became an issue this fall when some of the business managers and property owners complained that the trees are blocking visibility to their signs and storefronts.
Woodfin has reviewed the tree situation closely following the business complaints and subsequent comments by citizens who said that "they don't want to lose the trees for their aesthetic value, especially when they are lighted up at Christmastime."
The council has opted not to pursue the proposed tree removal plan until this spring.
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It's a realization of newish CEO Pascal Soriot's vow to streamline the company, which he said recently has become too "complicated" and "conservative."
The company will move its global marketing and US specialty care commercial divisions out of its Wilmington, DE US headquarters and in with MedImmune in Gaithersburg, MD. The Wilmington office will shrink by 1,200 employees, to 2,000, with the exit of its global medicines development department, as well as global marketing and US specialty. The Gaithersburg office will see around 300 new positions – again, mostly in R&D – while 170 other positions will be moved from Wilmington to other locations in the US or overseas. The firm's Boston office will continue to serve as an R&D hub, but with a focus on small molecule products.
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AstraZeneca, which has struggled with a raft of patent expirations and a depleted pipeline in recent years, will take a $1.4 billion charge for the restructuring -- $800 million of that in cash – and hopes to realize $190 million in annual savings by 2016.
The job reductions shouldn't come as a surprise -- Phase 3 of the company's restructuring program, which spans 2012-2014, calls for headcount reductions of around 7,300. AstraZeneca has already eliminated 15,100 positions since 2006.
In January, Soriot, having just dispatched the company's heads of R&D and global commercial, told analysts and investors of advisory boards with KOLs: "Typically I heard that AstraZeneca ranks in the top three or four companies in the industry," said Soriot, "So you might ask what it is you need to do to leverage this and why is the pipeline not what you could expect it to be, and I think, really, we have become a little bit complicated and in many ways out of this, a bit conservative."


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Chester D. Cook, 90, of Smyrna, DE, passed away peacefully in the comfort of his home with his loving family by his side on Saturday, March 2, 2013.
Born on Nov. 18, 1922 in Midland, PA, "Bud" as he was known by his family and friends, was the son of the Audrey (Nohe) and Chester E. Cook and raised by his mother and step-father, Ollie Hamel.
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In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife, Irene, and his sister, Melva J. O'Shea.
Bud leaves behind two daughters and son-in-laws, Barbara J. and Barry Crissman of Aliso Viejo, CA and Patricia A. and Jim Goodlin Jr. of Smyrna, DE; four grandchildren whom he adored, Michael J. Goodlin of St. Louis, MO, Courtney Thornell of Aliso Viejo, CA, Megan Lauer of Gilbert, AZ and Trisha Goodlin of Smyrna, DE; and five precious great-grandchildren, McKenzie, Savannah, Shawn, Colton and Brooke.
Funeral services will be held at noon on Thursday, March 7 at Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home, 212 N. Broad St., in Middletown, where friends may visit Wednesday evening, March 6 from 6-8 p.m. Interment will follow funeral services on Thursday at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Bear, DE.
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Objective: SWBAT use horizontal and vertical shifts to sketch the graphs of exponential functions and identify key features of the graphs and how transformations change these key features.
Big Idea: Building on yesterday's idea, key features of exponential graphs, students see how parameter changes of the function can change these features.
To warm-up for today's lesson I want students to review the important aspects of basic exponential functions by doing a Think-Pair-Share over the prompts on page 2 of the flipchart. I plan to give students time to discuss the prompts in their team and then randomly call on individuals to share with the class.
I predict students will struggle with this question due to the abstract nature of the problem. Students worked with domain and range yesterday, but are used to having a specific equation. Right now, my students are very calculator reliant to visualize the graph and then identify the domain and range. I chose this problem specifically so that students couldn't graph it in their calculator.
My main goal here is for students to reflect on the general properties of an exponential function that has not been transformed in any way. Students should reflect on the domain and range of exponential functions and how the 'b' value affects our functions. In particular, that the domain has no restrictions, but that the range is restricted because the function values can never reach zero. Students should also know that exponential functions grows quickly when b>1 and decreases quickly when 0<b<1.
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Students should now work through the Student Worksheet Exploring shifting. This worksheet could be completed by students individually or in their teams. I am going to allow students to use a graphing calculator to speed up the activity. My goal today is not for them to be able to graph (that was yesterday!) but for them to quickly identify the parameter changes and make conclusions based on these changes.
Today's lesson is a great opportunity to reinforce Mathematical Practice 7: look for and make use of structure. Are students picking up on the fact that exponential functions behave (in regards to transformations) the same as other functions we've studied? Are they able to generalize these past findings and the structure of an exponential function to quickly identify the shifts of these functions without a calculator? Students should be encouraged to sketch the graph of the function before graphing on their calculator to reinforce what they already know, or think they know.
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[This essay was written with the academic reform in Germany in mind. I do think, however, that the discussion is useful even for readers outside. Readers in Europe will no doubt discover many parallels with what is going on in their countries.]
The university is at the moment a hot topic in Germany. More precisely the topic is the so-called Bologna Reform and whether or not it has been a success. To my chagrin only a narrow range of problems is seriously being discussed. Mostly the debate is focussed on certain numbers which are supposed to show whether or not the targets have been met, be it international rankings or numbers of dropouts or the like. In my opinion the central aspect gets completely ignored: universities are also (and foremost) a place of critical discussion and reflection. They are holding up the mirror to the society. They study the world and they interpret it. Everybody knows how important it is to slow down and reflect. And like us humans society too needs places where it can meditate and reflect. And universities should be such places.
Now people will say: well, this is the job of philosophers and theologians. It is in their job description to ask big questions. But the majority of people have to be properly educated. And what counts is proper knowledge of facts and methods. The job of universities is to foster that knowledge and pass it on. Their quality is measured by how well they perform this task. I disagree. Even more: I protest! Knowledge certainly isn't what is needed the most. And I demand no more and no less than that people stop requesting change, that they stop drafting one reform after another. And that they return to the universities what has been taken from them: their freedom.
There are many reasons for this. Mine have nothing to do with nostalgia. I do not intend to discuss whether the German diploma was better than the new masters. My reasons are existential. We all know that the earth and mankind are right now in very bad shape. Wherever we look, human existence has reached the limit: water, food, raw materials, energy, everything is running out. In this decade, we are in for some enormous crises that will make the 2008 financial crisis just an appetizer. The next financial crisis is already in the making. Fukushima will have dire consequences that are just beginning to dawn on people. Those who have realised the level of destruction, who have understood what the oil peak is bringing for us, those people cannot sit and watch quietly anymore. They have to tell those who are planning our future that the future they are planning for will not arrive. And they will know that the laws and decrees, ministerial meetings, and educational conferences are nothing but occupational therapy. They have nothing to do with what we really have to care for.
In principle we should enable the universities to find our way out of the crisis, or to help society and all people to cope with whatever hardship they will encounter. To this end, three things are necessary. First, the universities need to get their independence restored. Second, they must be able to open many more oportunities for reflection and discussion — with, nota bene, no pressure to publish; don't worry, we shall publish anyhow when we have something to say! And third, since all this is quite expensive, they have to be relieved from the burden to educate an ever larger segment of the population. I will argue why I think that this is necessary.
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As I remarked above, water, raw materials, energy and food are getting scarce. I repeat this in the form of a central thesis.
The era of cheap energy is over once and for all. The supply of oil is going down from now on, to be followed some years or two decades later by coal, gas and uranium. The immediate consequence is a decline in the available energy. Likewise the era of raw materials is going to end. In the near future, raw materials will be available only through recycling.
Background material can be found in the report Tariel Mórrígan: Peak Energy, Climate Change and The Collapse of Global Civilization, UC Santa Barbara, 2010. A further witness is the IEA (International Energy Agency), which has for the first time openly mentioned the word peak oil and stated that peak oil happened in 2008 (see World Energy Outlook 2010). The IEA has always been quite optimistic in its scenarios. Peak oil is the term for the global maximum in oil production throughout the known history. See also Colin Campbell: The coming oil crisis, Independent Publishers Group, 2004, as well as the website of the Energy Watch Group. The oil production is anticipated to drop by more than 5 percent annually. This means that it will take less than 10 years until the amount of available oil has dropped by half. This development is not ahead of us in the distant future, it has already started. And this is why it is of immense importance to understand what that means for us.
I have concentrated on oil. But the situation with coal, natural gas and uranium is not much different. And the same for food, water, and fish. We are living on the edge. The limits of growth are not in the future, they are now (see the new book by Ugo Bardi: The Limits to Growth Revisited, 2012). The western society has started the descent but few people are openly talking about it.
What will the future bring?
The discussion has already started in the internet. Feasta in Ireland, the Post Carbon Institute in California, the Transition Town movement in Britain and elsewhere: they all are trying to develop answers to the question what needs to be done. To all involved it is clear that we do not know the consequences in detail. Economists are split over the question whether we face inflation or even hyperinflation (Martenson) or deflation (Foss) or whether the euro will survive this decade or not. Climate scientists are not sure whether Europe will face warmer temperatures or not. But each and every one of them agrees that the big picture is clearly visible. And it announces big changes and, to be sure, big cuts in the living standard for us in the industrialised countries, to say the least.
In the long run the developed world faces a period of several decades of deindustrialisation as described by John M. Greer in The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of Industrial Age, 2008. The optimists among us who still believe that more or more intelligent technology is the cure are well advised to read the quoted sources carefully and then check out the present situation. In Europe, oil is (once again) hovering comfortably above 100 dollars a barrel, coal is getting more expensive. And yet wind energy supplies only 7 percent of our electricity (data from 2010). The EU is planning that renewable energy shall supply 20 percent of the total energy by 2020. In other words: the remaining 80 percent will still be derived from oil, coal, natural gas and uranium. And the demand in India and China is rising steadily. Yet the supply will shrink mercilessly.
Supply will not satisfy demand any longer. Somebody will have to take a hit.
The consequences for the universities
These developments have several consequences for the universities. The first is a decline in popularity. A university degree will guarantee less and less a secure job, not to mention better salaries. This will be a disincentive for more and more people. For them it will simply mean a risky investment. The second problem is the budget of the universities themselves. The finanical crisis is a harbinger of the energy crisis. Even though some negative consequences could be avoided, the development is at large inevitable. It is called increasing costs of living. Everything will be more expensive, the buying power of the people will shrink, state coffers are emptying. And this in turn will put the finances of many institutions — among which the universities — at risk. Already in the Netherlands the government demands real cuts in the number of tenured faculty. Britain has enacted a radical spending cut together with stiff fee hikes. The complaint by the students that this simply means that the younger generation is made to shoulder the consequences is not far fetched. As in the US, states are required to produce a balanced budget. In reality they have such big debts that discussions have flared up whether states should be allowed to go bankrupt. The budget of California runs at around $ 120 billion with a fiscal gap of $ 30 billion. And this gap will certainly not be temporary. And it will eventually lead to big cuts in the university budgets, too, see Michael Cain: Oil limits lead to state budget squeezes.The boom in Germany on the other hand is not going to last very long, and when the downturn arrives much similar problems will appear.
So why is a university degree becoming less attractive? To see this we need to consider the role of energy. We are used to doing everything with a huge amount of additional energy. It is said that every calorie of food that an average American eats, 10 additional calories are spent using (typically) oil.If energy is getting more expensive, so will therefore food. In order to understand what that implies we just need to take a look at our past. The massive deployment of machines in agriculture has allowed more people than ever to be unproductive, that is, to do work that is not directly related to basic human needs: food and shelter. One hundred years ago, every second person worked in the fields, today it is a mere 2 percent. As energy prices go up, this trend will get reversed. And so the number of students will drop. Today 72 percent of work is in the tertiary sector and 26 percent is in the secondary sector. The tertiary sector will definitely have to shrink. For more and more people will be needed in the fields again. Also production has to become less energy intensive and so its share will go up while the diversity of jobs will decrease.
These are just rough estimates. Above all it is important to note that jobs requiring muscle power will once again be on the rise. For we will have to replace machine power.
The shrinking of the educational sector
As I have just said, the number of students will be on the decline. At this moment Germany counts well over 2 million students while the population is 81 million. A hundred years ago, while the population was at 64 million, there were only 55,000 students. It is thus pretty clear that the number of students will go down.It is unclear what numbers we will have to reckon with. See also Daniel Pargmann: Peak Oil, "Big Science" and "Big Education".
This provokes a host of questions. The biggest and most important is whether it is advisable that governments seize the oportunity and retire from funding the universities. There is certainly a great danger that this will happen. I suspect that the reforms are in part meant to make studying less attractive so that young people get discouraged without anyone having to bar them from entering.
Exactly this is a dangerous avenue. At this point we are sitting on a mountain of knowledge. If universities were to get rid of their faculty, many areas of knowledge would simply die out. And this will happen not because the knowledge will not be there (if not stored electronically it will last us a few decades). It will happen because there will no longer be people who have a secure grasp of that knowledge. It is an illusion to think that knowledge is useful when it is stored on hard drives or in books.(See in this connection the illuminating book by Bernard Stiegler: Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. 2010.) The biggest problem is however that we cannot estimate what kinds of knowledge we may safely dump. And so it is pretty unwise to let the knowledge die out in an uncontrolled way. Consider, for example, the nuclear waste, whose proper treatment we need to worry about even decades after nuclear energy has ceased to be useful for us (which will be in roughly 30 years).Thus we will have to afford a dedicated group of experts who will be able to deal with it. (I recommend the review by Daniel Pargmann of the book "The World without Us" by Alan Weisman.)
Sooner or later the loss of knowledge will be inevitable. We will no longer have the means to keep all that knowledge alive. Then we shall have to get rid of some parts of it. I shall not at this point risk an assessment of which ones that will be. However, I warn against the idea that the humanities will have to go first. Until now scientists and engineers were the ones who could proudly claim to create the basis of our production and therefore of our economy. However, when raw materials and energy are getting scarce it is precisely the stuff with which they used to enchant us that will no longer be available to them. Neither scientists nor engineers are able to create something out of nothing. To the contrary. Now questions will appear which they have never learned to answer. When health care funds are not enough to treat all sick people, when gas is no longer sufficient for everyone to drive wherever they want, when energy supply isn't keeping up with demand, when supermarket shelves start to look more like those in the Soviet Union than in the US, then scientists will no longer be so useful any more. Then other people will have our attention. Those who can explain the problem to people. Those who know how to prevent one group taking advantage of another. Those who know how to achieve a lot with little. Those who can give the society the hope it needs. Who show us the way. This sounds more like sociologists, anthropologists, cultural scientists, and philosophers. Or like artists.
So what should universities achieve?
While the system is collapsing everywhere at the fringes, the ministries and their planning staff have nothing better to do than to introduce more and more rules and regulations and to call for more standards. They are asking more of everything: more students, more teaching hours, more excellence, more transparency and more accountability. It is pretty clear that they are asking for the impossible. The day is not getting longer and people simply cannot think faster than before.
Under normal circumstances this would already be a hard sell. Now however it simply borders at collective delusion. The crisis is knocking at our door. The reformers are at this point moving on thin ice. They are planning years ahead when next year could already be the moment of economic decline. And no one is prepared. The contrary is the case. The administration wants us to know who is the boss. It is turning the screw on us. It treats us with preemptive suspicion that we are not cooperating and reacts with the typical instruments of modern bureaucracy. This leaves the choice to either refuse to cooperate (and thereby retroactively sanction their suspicion) or to do as they want and sacrifice precious time and energy feeding this legal firework. And that which the administration is not incapable of destroying is left for the jurisdiction. It is now judges that tell us how a curriculum is supposed to look like and what counts as academic success. (For example, a high court has ruled that admission to a masters degree cannot be based on interviews.)
But exactly at this moment it is so vital that we have time to deal with other things. For example, we need to face the fact that the kind of skills and knowledge that will be needed or useful in the future is not really known. Will we need nuclear physicists in the future and if so how many? What will they have to know? Who will hire airplane engineers? Or transplant surgeons in contrast to general physicians? What will be the use of a degree in tourism? I am not sure anyone has a notion of how the game will end. In the not too distant future flying will be a luxury and people will not drive a car in the same way as they are doing now. Has anyone thought through the implications for the curriculum of engineers? How many will we need? Or will perhaps a degree in engineering be useful anyhow because they will learn qualifications that go beyond their narrow specialisation of designing motors?
What sense do all these formal requirements make if it is not clear what we will be doing tomorrow? Why not let the people in charge (lecturers and professors) decide at every moment what is best taught to their students? Why hurry to engrave this into yet another five year plan? Why not get rid of all the requirements and world wide standards? What is the use of knowing someone spent 100 hours dealing with historical linguistics and earned 3.5 credit points? Why is the administration so keen on planning everything if it is anyhow incompetent to judge the content? I do not know what a degree from Freiburg or Aachen in Linguistics is worth not to mention the content and methods. What are the modules and credit points supposed to achieve? I doubt that this way we are getting better teachers. One should stop believing in the healing power of the institutions. These structures immobilize us. They may be good for business, but they are contraproductive for research and university education.
The future of the university
We should simply kiss good bye the idea that more and more people can be awarded a university degree. There is no more money to pay for that and these degrees will anyhow lose in value.
But what does that mean for us? In my opinion, one should stop whenever possible to make big plans for the future. Second, all involved should refrain from initiating more reforms or curricular harmonisations. Third, we should face the fact that the growing paperwork distracts us from what we are in fact supposed to be doing: thinking. Moreover, we are asked to do excellent, high level thinking. To enable students to think critically requires direct personal contact and patience. It is for this reason that society shouldn't think too soon that the shrinking number of students translates into a shrinking number of faculty and hence shrinking budgets. At least not in the short run.
What is more, the tacit assumption of ever growing networks and mobility is an illusion. It is predicated on the assumption of endless cheap oil and other ressources. This is not going to last us long. Our societies are experiencing the age of industrialisation in reverse gear. But since we are not planning on going back to where we came from it is essential to actively plan our future. This is among other the role of the universities. To be able to deliver they need more freedom from state management than they currently have. The current vision of a university measured by performance figures ultimately condensed into rankings does not fit at all what is needed most. The society will have to answer the question whether it wants to save money or whether it wants universities to truly deliver.
On the other hand I am missing a broad debate. The time frame is short. In a few years (not decades) the contraction of the entire industrial world will be noticeable. The financial crisis was only the beginning (and hasn't even ended). Inasmuch as universities are the places for reflection about mankind and the human condition I am surprised how little debate there is about the crisis with all its implications. (Mind you, artists and students do not seem to care that much either compared to the political movements in the 60s and 70s.) For it is no less than our own fate that is at stake. And how successfully society will deal with the coming problems will show the success of our education and not the numbers which are supposed to measure it. And when we talk about academic freedom we should also talk about academic responsibility. It is disheartening to see academics fight over external funds and propose meaningless research just in order to get money, while at the same time their real call is not to please the dean but to service the society. Not that I wish for society to make plans for how that could best be done. For once we know how, the job of the university is done. I want society to let academics find out what is truly ahead of us and how we should deal with it; and I call on academics to devote their time and energy to that goal.


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Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. senator-elect from Massachusetts and bank critic, is likely to join the Senate Banking Committee, aides told The Wall Street Journal.
The decision will be made in January after the new Senate convenes. The Democratic caucus has the final say on committee assignments but rarely disputes the recommendations made by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
Warren was an important advocate for greater consumer protection in the financial services sector before she left the Obama administration to teach at Harvard Law School and run for the Senate. Left-wing groups such as MoveOn.org have been pushing for a place on the Banking Committee.
Banking executives and industry lobbyists say they have not been trying to block Warren from the committee. MoveOn said it had raised thousands of dollars to push for her and accused "Wall Street" of trying to keep her off.


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Digging deeping into the Caltex Australia Ltd (CTX.AX) 's technical indicators, we note that the Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R currently sits at -60.84. The Williams %R oscillates in a range from 0 to -100. A reading between 0 and -20 would point to an overbought situation. A reading from -80 to -100 would signal an oversold situation. The Williams %R was developed by Larry Williams. This is a momentum indicator that is the inverse of the Fast Stochastic Oscillator.
Investors are paying close attention to shares of Caltex Australia Ltd (CTX.AX). A popular tool among technical stock analysts is the moving average. Moving averages are considered to be lagging indicators that simply take the average price of a stock over a specific period of time. Moving averages can be very useful for identifying peaks and troughs. They may also be used to help the trader figure out proper support and resistance levels for the stock. Currently, the 200-day MA is sitting at 31.68, and the 50-day is 33.51.
Caltex Australia Ltd (CTX.AX) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -36.65. Active investors may choose to use this technical indicator as a stock evaluation tool. Used as a coincident indicator, the CCI reading above +100 would reflect strong price action which may signal an uptrend. On the flip side, a reading below -100 may signal a downtrend reflecting weak price action. Using the CCI as a leading indicator, technical analysts may use a +100 reading as an overbought signal and a -100 reading as an oversold indicator, suggesting a trend reversal.
The RSI, or Relative Strength Index, is a widely used technical momentum indicator that compares price movement over time. The RSI was created by J. Welles Wilder who was striving to measure whether or not a stock was overbought or oversold. The RSI may be useful for spotting abnormal price activity and volatility. The RSI oscillates on a scale from 0 to 100. The normal reading of a stock will fall in the range of 30 to 70. A reading over 70 would indicate that the stock is overbought, and possibly overvalued. A reading under 30 may indicate that the stock is oversold, and possibly undervalued. After a recent check, the 14-day RSI for Caltex Australia Ltd is currently at 50.11, the 7-day stands at 46.02, and the 3-day is sitting at 41.34.
Another technical indicator that may be a powerful resource for determining trend strength is the Average Directional Index or ADX. The ADX was introduced by J. Welles Wilder in the late 1970's and it has stood the test of time. The ADX is typically used in conjunction with the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) to help spot trend direction as well as trend strength. At the time of writing, the 14-day ADX for Caltex Australia Ltd (CTX.AX) is noted at 14.72. Many technical analysts believe that an ADX value over 25 would suggest a strong trend. A reading under 20 would indicate no trend, and a reading from 20-25 would suggest that there is no clear trend signal.


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Dr. Myrna Alexander
That's just one reason Dr. Myrna Alexander, University of Mississippi Medical Center associate professor of cardiology, has opened the Women's Heart Clinic at Select Specialty Hospital in northeast Jackson. Every Thursday, Alexander is breaking from her regular heart clinic to see female patients ages 17 and older referred by their primary physician or licensed, certified practitioner.
Too often, Alexander said, women's heart symptoms are brushed off by health-care providers who say they're being dramatic or anxious. Those indicators – among them chest discomfort, a racing heartbeat, hypertension and fatigue – should be explored to rule in, or rule out, a cardiovascular problem, she said.
It could be a matter of life or death. Cardiovascular disease kills more Americans each year than any other disease, the American Heart Association says.
"I am a gatekeeper for determining if a patient has an arrhythmia, a valve problem, or some other form of heart disease," said Alexander, who came to the UMMC faculty in 2012 after 15 years at Jackson Cardiology Associates. "We investigate it, and we steer them where they need to go."
Johnnie Patton of Jackson, right, leads a support group for female heart patients with Kay Hodges of Terry.
At the new Women's Heart Clinic, Alexander performs diagnostic tests, including EKG, heart catheterization, exercise stress testing, echocardiogram, and stress echocardiogram, as she evaluates the roles ailments such as diabetes or obesity are playing in the patient's heart health.
It's her mission to look at risk factors and different symptomatic presentations of cardiovascular disease in women, as compared to men, and to educate patients and the public about those differences. And, she said, it's her job to ensure patients and health-care providers realize heart disease isn't just for men.
"There's a lot of research being done on why women have different presentations of their symptoms," Alexander said. "A lot of their symptoms get ignored and misunderstood."
Patients at the Women's Heart Clinic will find Alexander has a caring nature and a listening ear, said Tonjula Shelby, a registered nurse and care coordinator who is facilitating a new support group for female patients. "There are things about your body that you'd rather discuss with a female doctor," Shelby said.
The support group meets at 12:30 p.m. the first Monday of the month at the University Physicians Pavilion on the medical center campus. It's open to all women with heart issues, and not just patients of Alexander or UMMC.
Kay Hodges of Terry speaks during a women's heart support group meeting.
It allows patients to tell their own stories and compare notes on how they're coping, said Kay Hodges of Terry, who with another of Alexander's patients, Johnnie Patton of Jackson, is trained to lead the group. They are trained by specialist at the Mayo Clinic to run the support group.
"It's about learning to do things that will help you with quality of life while you're dealing with your heart problems," said Hodges, who has both cancer and congestive heart failure. Speakers educate the patients about anything from nutrition to exercise to their mental well-being.
"I wondered if other women had as much trouble with dizziness as I do," Hodges said. "And, we talk about depression and stress, and what triggers it. I was so depressed when I had open heart surgery. I wondered if I wanted to go on, and that was not my personality. I talked to one of the nurses, and she said I felt that way because of my heart problem, and that it was common."
Said Patton, diagnosed with atrial fibrillation: "Women are devastated when they find out they have heart disease. They're not like men. We invite anyone with heart disease to come to these meetings so we can give them support."
Dr. Myrna Alexander listens to the heart of Elizabeth Greer of Lexington
Last week, Alexander saw a new patient, Elizabeth Greer of Lexington. "Take a deep breath," Alexander said as she examined the 72-year-old. "Have you had any chest discomfort?"
She came to the clinic, Greer said, because "I heard Dr. Alexander was a good doctor, and I've always been more comfortable with a female doctor."
Alexander said another patient with a new defibrillator recently called her. "She told me it was making funny noises, and said she heard it beeping," Alexander said.
When she called the woman's cardiologist to discuss it, Alexander said, "Automatically, he thought it was just in her head."
The doctor reported back to her that he'd researched the defibrillator and discovered it does indeed beep. "You need to pay attention to what we are saying," Alexander said of her women patients.
Physicians also need more education about treating pregnant women with heart disease, Alexander said. "We have a younger generation of women with heart disease who are getting pregnant," she said. "Pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist are doing a better job of increasing the survival of kids with heart disease. You correct their problems, they grow up, and want to be normal and have a family."
Those women and other expectant mothers diagnosed as adults should be treated as high risk, Alexander said. "Pregnancy puts a lot more stress on the heart. The heart has to deal with the extra weight gained during pregnancy, and there's an increase in cardiac output to provide nutrients for the baby."
Patient education, Alexander and Shelby say, is another main focus. "We teach risk factor modification, and that can include nutrition, diet, exercise, stress and medication compliance," Alexander said.
A recent support group speaker gave the women pointers on how stress can lead to depression. Speakers also included UMMC dietitian Dacia Lyn Breeden, who handed out a list of heart-healthy "smart" foods and tips for de-junking refrigerators.
"The path to a healthy heart starts in your stomach," Breeden told them. "Do you eat to live, or do you live to eat?"
Alexander's hopes for the fledgling clinic include building its patient base through brochures, family and internal medicine physicians, and other grassroots efforts. She envisions frequent rotations and rounds by fellows, residents and physicians "so that they can understand the special problems experienced by women with heart disease.
"You teach them, and then they can train others to note these problems."
For more information about the Women's Heart Clinic, its support group, or making an appointment/seeking a referral, call (601) 984-5678.
Good patient education for those with heart disease includes dispelling myths about its symptoms and treatment, the American Heart Association says.
Those myths include:
Heart disease only happens to old people or those who lead an unhealthy lifestyle.
• The truth: As a child, you can start developing plaque in your arteries that leads to clogged arteries and heart disease. Young and middle-aged adults can develop heart problems because type 2 diabetes and other risk factors, such as hypertension, are popping up earlier in life.
High blood pressure contributes to heart disease, but I don't have it and I'd know if I did.
• The truth: High blood pressure is called the "silent killer" because you often don't know you have it. Get it checked; if untreated, it can cause heart attack, stroke, kidney damage and other critical health issues.
You have to have chest pain to be having a heart attack.
• The truth: You can have chest pain or discomfort, but the symptoms may be more subtle, such as shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea or pain or discomfort in the arms, jaw, neck or back.
My diabetes won't impact my heart because I'm on medication.
• The truth: You're still at increased risk for heart disease or stroke, because having diabetes automatically puts you there.
Heart disease runs in my family, so I'm doomed to it.
• The truth: You can dramatically reduce your risk by following an action plan to get active, control cholesterol, eat better, manage blood pressure, weight and sugar, and stop smoking.
I'm not having heart failure, because that means your heart stops beating.
• The truth: The heart stops beating during cardiac arrest. Your heart keeps working during heart failure, but it causes shortness of breath, swelling in your feet and ankles, and the inability to normally pump blood through your body.
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